No requiem for the space age : the Apollo moon landings and American culture / Matthew D. Tribbe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tribbe, Matthew D., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Project Apollo (U.S.)--Public opinion--History--20th century.

Project Apollo (U.S.).

Astronautics--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Astronautics.

Space flight to the Moon--United States--History--20th century.

Space flight to the Moon.

Popular culture--United States.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxfordshire, England : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the summer of 1969-the summer Americans first walked on the moon-musician and poet Patti Smith recalled strolling down the Coney Island Boardwalk to a refreshment stand, where ""pictures of Jesus, President Kennedy, and the astronauts were taped to the wall behind the register."" Such was the zeitgeist in the year of the moon. Yet this holy trinity of 1960s America would quickly fall apart. Although Jesus and John F. Kennedy remained iconic, by the time the Apollo Program came to a premature end just three years later few Americans mourned its passing. Why did support for the space prog

Contents:

""Cover""; ""No Requiem for the Space Age: The Apollo Moon Landings and American Culture""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Significant Apollo Missions""; ""No Requiem for the Space Age""; ""Introduction""; ""Part One: On Talking about Apollo""; ""1: “The Message of the Spirit of Apollo�: Commonplace Reactions""; ""2: On the Nihilism of WASPs: Norman Mailer in NASA-Land""; ""Part Two: On Mastering the Universe""; ""3: Apollo and the “Human Condition�""; ""4: The Thunder of Apollo: A Benevolent Endeavor in a Century of Brutality""

""Part Three: On Rationalism and Neo-Romanticism""""5: Turning a Miracle into a Bummer: Squareland, Potland, and the Psychedelic Moon""; ""6: “God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot�: Moon Voyaging in the Neo-Romantic 1970s""; ""Conclusion: In the Wake of Apollo""; ""Notes""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1""; ""Chapter 2""; ""Chapter 3""; ""Chapter 4""; ""Chapter 5""; ""Chapter 6""; ""Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-931354-7

0-19-938551-3

0-19-931353-9

OCLC:

880147825